Episode 54: The Mysterious Gift Case Begins

  "What's the point of giving me this thing? Is it a gift for me? What is it? Is it valuable? Can I sell it?" I asked.

  He didn't answer and hung up with a smile.

  "Bad guy!" - I muttered under my breath into the phone, feeling delighted.

  I hung up the phone and pushed open the study door, just in time to hear Brother Chang saying: "...once you fall in love, there's no saving you, it's a waste of a good education."

  I shot back: "Women may be obsessed with empty love, but at least they're better than men who think with their lower body."

  Chang'e was shot by an arrow and fell to the ground vomiting blood — in my imagination.

  Going forward, nothing substantial was discussed. Chen Lao once again emphasized that the approach to handling the Da Si Keng case is to seek victory through stability and all that, but I didn't listen carefully, my mind preoccupied with what Wang Yong would give me.

  It's easy to finish talking and I got up and was about to leave.

  "Little Qin," Chen Lao solemnly stopped me, holding a walnut and staring into my eyes, asking, "I have been through thick and thin with Old Zheng for decades, but if he is involved in the case, I will personally arrest him. If Wang Yong is involved, can you do the same?"

  I didn't think I'd answer loudly: "Of course, if the surname Wang is a villain, I must... I must..." But the words behind that I couldn't say out loud. Old Chen looked at me, his gaze seemed to be able to see into my heart, and I could only put two "paws" on both sides of my face and sell Meng: "Mom said, don't worry about things that haven't been confirmed yet~~"

  ………

  What my elder brother said is really true: once a girl falls in love, she's done for.

  The stories of Xi Shi and many other famous women all tell us: men will use the method of "giving women away" to exchange for a self-proclaimed world, while women will use the wisdom of "plotting for the world" to exchange for a self-proclaimed emotional connection.

  Although it's not everyone, it's roughly like this, men and women can't escape these two sentences.

  Anyway, I'm just making excuses for my own stupid mistakes after my IQ plummeted.

  On the way back to Lanzhou, I couldn't wait to check my email on my phone. Since there were no new emails displayed, I kept refreshing and searching in the trash can, fearing that it might have been mistaken for spam and thrown away. Halfway through, Wang Yong's email finally arrived, with the subject "From Wang Yong, please receive". The content was empty, but there was an attachment.

  "What is it after all?"

  I downloaded and opened the attachment.

  The attachment only has these five words: Put it on the table.

  Why bother with an attachment for just five words? I finally came to my senses, but it was too late to shout "not good", the attachment had already been opened! Attachments are the standard carriers of viruses, when two countries go to war, they first cut off attachments!! Today, I actually made such a low-level mistake!

  I hastily checked my phone, but didn't find anything unusual.

  Back to the Lan Gong Guan room, opened the door with a key, but found that on the table in the middle of the room was really placed a gift box, about one foot square, wrapped in black small butterfly knot patterned wrapping paper, tied with a large black butterfly knot.

  My brother came with me, one to see me back safely and the other out of curiosity about what I was up to with Wang Yong again. He saw the gift and his eyes lit up, reaching out to take it: "It's from Wang Yong, isn't it? Open it quickly and let's have a look."

  "Wait! Don't move, whatever you do!" I hastily stopped him.

  "What's wrong?" Chang asked in surprise.

  I stretched out my thumb and index finger, swung my arm forward, "The truth, there is only one!"

  "This sounds familiar," said Brother Chang, "what's the truth?"

  I carefully walked around the gift twice, analyzing: "I've hacked into Wang Yong's phone more than once. Based on the law of universal gravitation, Newton's law of inertia and the principle of revenge in the Jianghu world, Wang Yong must have hacked my phone. But my phone is still working normally so far, so there must be a bigger conspiracy behind..."

  "My brother said: 'In my opinion, you are overthinking.'"

  I shook my head: "Wrong! Absolutely no extra talk, only incomplete thinking! The two countries are at war and lightly enemy is a big taboo. Brother Chang, you see that the only window in this room is inserted from the inside, and you saw me open the door with a key to enter. On the other side of the small door, there are two locks locked, without any signs of prying. In other words, this is a secret room! So, how did this gift get in?"

  My brother was also confused by me, but he soon thought of the most likely possibility: "There must be a key in the property management office, and someone borrowed the key to come in and leave the gift."

  "I said: 'That makes sense, but Brother Chang, you don't know that the key from the property management office absolutely cannot open my room.'"

  "Did you secretly change the key?"

  "No, I changed the lock," I said. "After I moved in, something happened that made me think Wang Yong might have a spare key to my room, so I changed the lock. The new lock looks ordinary but actually has an alarm function. If someone tries to pry it open, my phone will receive a notification, so I can be 60% sure that the person didn't come in through the front door."

  I'm only 60% sure because I was stupid enough to open the attachment sent by Wang Yong, although nothing seems out of the ordinary for now, but my phone may have been infected with a virus.

  Older brother lowered his head to examine the footprints, "This is a good clue, let me take a look."

  If someone came in through the front door, unless that person was flying in and out with qinggong. Chang Ge looked around excitedly and said, "My eyes didn't see anything, it's strange, this kind of floor should leave obvious footprints, wait a minute, I'll go get the equipment."

  "I said: 'Would you mind taking a look at the entrance and see if there are any strange footprints?'"